Federico Venturini

Federico Venturini is a PhD student at the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, UK. After a bachelor degree in Philosophy, he holds a master degree in Philosophy from the University of Trieste with a thesis on Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy of language and game theory, and one in History and European Culture from the University of Udine (Italy) on the impact of institutional and grassroots urban initiatives of city’s development. Aim of his current PhD project is to explore the relations between modern cities and urban social movements, using Social Ecology as research framework. As part of the CONTESTED CITIES FP7 network, he is working with social movements in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) with participatory/militant methodology. Since 2013, he is member on the advisory board of the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology – Verlinghieri, E.TRISE.
He has a blog on his activist-research experiences: https://rioprarua.noblogs.org/